Pinhook: Finding Wholeness In A Fragmented Land
by Janisse Ray /
2005 / English / EPUB
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Janisse Ray, award-winning author of
Janisse Ray, award-winning author ofEcology of a Cracker
Childhood
Ecology of a Cracker
Childhood and
andWild Card Quilt
Wild Card Quilt, writes an evocative
paean to wildness and wilderness restoration with an
extraordinary journey into southern Georgia's Pinhook Swamp.
, writes an evocative
paean to wildness and wilderness restoration with an
extraordinary journey into southern Georgia's Pinhook Swamp.
Pinhook Swamp acts as a vital watershed and wildlife corridor, a
link between the great southern wildernesses of Okefenokee Swamp
and Osceola National Forest. Together Okefenokee, Osceola, and
Pinhook form one of the largest expanse of protected wild land
east of the Mississippi River. This is one of America's last
truly wild places, and
Pinhook Swamp acts as a vital watershed and wildlife corridor, a
link between the great southern wildernesses of Okefenokee Swamp
and Osceola National Forest. Together Okefenokee, Osceola, and
Pinhook form one of the largest expanse of protected wild land
east of the Mississippi River. This is one of America's last
truly wild places, andPinhook
Pinhook takes us into its heart.
takes us into its heart.
Ray comes to know Pinhook intimately as she joins the fight to
protect it, spending the night in the swamp, tasting honey made
from its flowers, tracking wildlife, and talking to others about
their relationship with the swamp. Ray sees Pinhook through the
eyes of the people who live there--naturalists, beekeepers,
homesteaders, hunters, and locals at the country store. In
lyrical, down-home prose, she draws together the swamp's need for
restoration and the human desire for wholeness and wildness in
our own lives and landscapes.
Ray comes to know Pinhook intimately as she joins the fight to
protect it, spending the night in the swamp, tasting honey made
from its flowers, tracking wildlife, and talking to others about
their relationship with the swamp. Ray sees Pinhook through the
eyes of the people who live there--naturalists, beekeepers,
homesteaders, hunters, and locals at the country store. In
lyrical, down-home prose, she draws together the swamp's need for
restoration and the human desire for wholeness and wildness in
our own lives and landscapes.
